“How Many Ways Can You Heat Up an MRE? Let’s Find Out!”

In this video, I explore the many creative ways to heat up an army surplus MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat). From solar heating and cook sets to using a fire, boiling water, and even a Dutch oven, I cover a variety of methods to get your meal hot and ready.
But that’s not all! I want to challenge YOU to come up with your own fun and unique methods. Share your ideas in the comments below and let’s see how many different ways we can discover together!
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[@blackoracle69]

HAVE YOU GOT A WAYS TO HEAT A MRE THAT I HAVE NOT THOUGHT OF ? LEAVE YOUR COMMENT BELOW

[@danieljones2183]

On cold days when we were kids we'd put our sandwiches wrapped in foil on the classroom radiator and we'd have ourselves a hot lunch.

[@blackoracle69]

i did that as well

[@GeneBashaw]

Enjoy your videos Blackie. Retired after 35 years behind the wheel. Old meat hauler in the 80's. Would use the military mess kit, wired on top of the engine, place steak in folded foil, small potato in foil too. About an hour or so and dinner was done.

[@codaktakman7636]

Soups, Ravioli, and those little Hormel meals have heated on my truck dashes many occasions.

[@blackoracle69]

very cool

[@offthecouch1999]

@@codaktakman7636 or under the hood in the winter

[@smoothvern165]

I would have never thought of some of those ways! Very good video!

[@oldminer5387]

Good ideas, thank you Blackie.

[@royc.ssgt.8787]

Yeah when I was in the Army in a front line transportation unit a bunch of use would tape our MRE's using 100 mile an hour tape (duct tape) to the over flow reservoir of our engine's radiator to heat up our MRE's or taped them between the radiator and radiator frame. top of the radiator to heat them up too. But the reservoir was easier to get to.

[@markflick1641]

I’ve heated food on a motor . Great video .👍

[@blackoracle69]

Thanks 👍

[@jamesharvey44]

Cooked quite a few hot dogs on the intake manifold in foil.😃

[@MichaelR58]

Unique ideas Blackie, thanks for sharing YAH bless !

[@blackoracle69]

my pleasure

[@jeffrichards5106]

Great tips, Blackie. Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@blackoracle69]

glad to do it

[@benterwellen]

Great tips Blackie..

[@blackoracle69]

Thanks 👍

[@jenniferbauman4802]

Good video. You can use hot sauce. But this will work ready for it . hand warmers will work. God bless. From Glenn CATT. In Massachusetts.

[@blackoracle69]

good idea

[@williamsisk2897]

Canteen cup with hot water. Every once in a while flip the food packet. While serving in the Marine Corps, out in the desert in a non air conditioned HMMWV MREs and water bottles got pretty warm. Whenever we went to supply for mres, they would open a pallet which held boxes of 1-12 or 13-24 so we would end up cases of the same 12 meals. We would get tired of that selection and the next time for resupply we may get the same cases or a set of the others. MRE have there place, but 20 years later I don't have any desire to have them for anything other than emergency supplies.

[@jeffreybinion2996]

Hand warmers

[@rossrossier935]

Great idea's Blackie , learned this stuff years ago from a trucking buddy then from ole rr engineer mentor that taught how to on a locomotive exhaust manifold !!!

[@blackoracle69]

Right on

[@scottcatchot1598]

I have made solar ovens, also cooked burritos in windshield of vehicle on campots before. Great ideas never though about the engine idea

[@blackoracle69]

Sounds great!

[@preacherman9018]

This is a cool video..... I mean hot topic.

[@blackoracle69]

lol thanks

[@JohnDoe-qw4gc]

Hot Hands hand warmers work too and heat you as well.

[@blackoracle69]

very true

[@mountainmonkey1984]

I've heated them on the exhaust of a gold dredge motor.

[@bretjohnson6188]

I would have never thought of body heat!

[@blackoracle69]

it one of the tings ya dont think about till its 15F outside

[@andyandteresehunnel6531]

On a ruck march, we used to put one under our arm. The underarm is the hottest part of your body.

[@blackoracle69]

good point

[@jeremymoses7401]

.....i know i have "cooked" them.... though ive eaten them cold so many times i honestly cant remember one time where ive had time to enjoy it "cooked". I say cooked because most of my time in the desert, it was already hot a lot of times, but not cooked hot

[@fernandomartinez2886]

On top of the engine.

[@earlshaner4441]

Boiling a cup of coffee and have a MRE in the boiling coffee

[@offthecouch1999]

The friction between the democrats and republicans is causing global warming so id assume it could heat an mre

[@blackoracle69]

lol

[@peterott-tn6pf]

HAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂

[@raphmaster23]

Im done, i dont think this comment can beat anything else i read today 🤣🤣

[@billg7101]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@randybeeson3424]

I think you about covered it.

[@57WillysCJ]

You can heat it with a candle. Folks out west who have hot springs well you have immersion ready to go while relaxing. You can warm a lot of food wraped in foil on the engines of older vehicles. New ones have a plastic cover in the way. I have thought of building an oven for small items and connect it to the outside of a catalytic converter. I deemed it to hard to manage. Needs someone more ambitious than I am to perfect.

[@blackoracle69]

good ideas

[@stevestumpy6873]

I used to cook baked potatoes on my engine on the ride home from work if it was more than an hour.

[@blackoracle69]

true its thick and slow to absorb heat so cook time will be longer

[@toniwilson6210]

🤓 Calcium chloride. When you mix calcium chloride with cold(ish) or cool water it creates an exothermic reaction. - I’m not likely to do this, but it would work for making the MRE a little warmer.

[@blackoracle69]

Interesting!

[@toniwilson6210]

@@blackoracle69 so I guess you can get temperatures northwards of 200 degrees with calcium chloride, so I would recommend some moderation.